Prophet Abraham’s wife Sarai (later changed to Sarah by God) was more successful. The Torah states: “Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their accumulated property, ...

Chapter 17 God’s covenant with Abram, which includes renaming him “Abraham” and Sarai “Sarah,” promises him “all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding.” God is a kind of ...

Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives, the name of Abram’s wife being Sarai… Now Sarai was barren, she had no child. Terah took his son Abram… and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son ...

This is why when Abraham was reluctant to send away Hagar and Ishmael as Sarah demanded, God directly instructed him “In all that Sarah says to you, harken to her voice.” (Genesis 21:12) So ...

Only God can make a soul. But the Torah states that when Avram and Sarai left Haran to go to the land of Canaan, they took with them some members of their family, and “the souls that they made ...

“Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their accumulated property, and the souls they had made in Haran, and they left to go to the land of Canaan.” Genesis 12:5 ...

In Genesis 12:10-12:20, Abram and his wife Sarai go to Egypt to flee a famine. Abram asks Sarai to pretend to be his sister so that the Pharaoh might reward him. The plan works and Sarai is taken ...

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son… (Genesis 12:4-5) And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

Editor’s note: Second in a five-week series on Biblical women — and their babies. Last week we looked at Hannah’s extreme sorrow and stress due to infertility in the Old Testament book of ...

Only God can make a soul. So what does it mean when the Torah states that when Avram and Sarai left Haran to go to the land of Canaan, they took with them some members of their family, and “the ...